Netplay Issues and Controller Issues

A few friends and myself have been attempting to use RetroArch for awhile now, but two key issues are limiting our enjoyment of it thus far. The first, is no matter what, after eleven minutes exactly, and we timed it, we always get disconnected from eachother. We’ve confirmed there is no internet issues between us, and other games and programs do not suffer this problem.

The second, is that while the joypad configuration configures my controller, it doesn’t seem to stick, and my controller seems unusable in RetroArch itself for no apparent reason. If there’s a solution to either of these issues, I’d love to hear them.